Thought pure and simple is as near to God as we can get; it is through this that we are linked with God. - Samuel Butler

The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long alive

Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home.